Walter Isaacson Quotes
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I don't like possessions.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I've been training quite hard.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment. I found the experience of weightlessness to be one of the most fun and enjoyable, challenging and rewarding, experiences of spaceflight. Returning to Earth brings with it a great sense of heaviness, and a need for careful movement. In some ways it's not too different from returning from a rocking ocean ship.
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in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
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Rabin had a greater sense of the historical dimension. He was quite willing to take risks which Barak is not willing to take. Barak seems reluctant, begrudging, hesitant in terms of the peace process.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
